Kathryn Moler joins the Applied Physics Faculty this Fall

We are extremely pleased to report that Kathryn (Kam) Moler joined the Applied Physics Department as an Assistant Professor this fall. Professor Moler is the first woman on the faculty in the Applied Physics Department, and she brings exceptional talents in research and teaching to her position. Professor Moler was both an undergraduate student and a graduate student in the Physics Department. As an undergraduate, she received the Rebecca Carrington Award for excellence in research and teaching in 1988, and a Firestone Grant for undergraduate research in 1987. As a graduate student, Prof. Moler began her studies under the direction of Prof. Steve Chu in atomic physics amd transferred to Prof. Aharon Kapitulnik's group, where she completed an excellent thesis, now recognized as seminal in the identification of d-wave superconductivity. Additionally, Prof. Moler received the Stanford Centennial Teaching Award in 1990 and the Kirkpatrick Award for excellence in teaching in 1992. She obtained her Ph.D. from Stanford in 1995, and received a prestigious R. H. Dicke postdoctoral fellowship. Prof. Moler went on to perform a remarkable body of research at Princeton and at IBM, Yorktown Heights. The Stanford physics community will benefit from this outstanding faculty appointment, and we welcome Prof. Moler back to Stanford.